One day I was sitting with some of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ at a stopping place along the road to Makkah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had stopped ahead of us. The group was in the state of ihram while I was not. They spotted a wild donkey while I was busy mending my sandal. They did not alert me to it, but they hoped I would notice it myself. I turned and saw it, so I went to my horse, saddled it, and mounted, but I forgot the whip and the spear.I said to them, "Hand me the whip and the spear."They replied, "No, by Allah, we will not help you with it in any way."I became angry, dismounted, took them myself, then mounted again. I charged at the donkey and brought it down. I came back with it dead, and they fell upon it eating, but then they grew uncertain about eating it while in ihram.We set out, and I kept the foreleg with me. We caught up with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him about it.He asked, "Do you have any of it with you?"I handed him the foreleg, and he ate from it down to the bone while he was in ihram.
كنت يوما جالسا مع رجال من أصحاب النبي ﷺ في منزل في طريق مكة، ورسول الله ﷺ نازل أمامنا، والقوم محرمون وأنا غير محرم، فأبصروا حمارا وحشيا وأنا مشغول أخصف نعلي، فلم يؤذنوني له، وأحبوا لو أني أبصرته، فالتفت فأبصرته، فقمت إلى الفرس فأسرجته، ثم ركبت ونسيت السوط والرمح، فقلت لهم: ناولوني السوط والرمح، فقالوا: لا والله لا نعينك عليه بشيء، فغضبت فنزلت فأخذتهما ثم ركبت، فشددت على الحمار فعقرته، ثم جئت به وقد مات، فوقعوا فيه يأكلونه، ثم إنهم شكوا في أكلهم إياه وهم حرم، فرحنا، وخبأت العضد معي، فأدركنا رسول الله ﷺ فسألناه عن ذلك، فقال: معكم منه شيء؟ فناولته العضد فأكلها حتى تعرقها وهو محرم.
Bukhari related it in the Book of Foods (5407), and Muslim in the Book of Hajj (1194:63), both through Abu Hazim, from Abdullah bin Abu Qatada Salami, from his father, who said, then he mentioned it.His saying, "gnawing it," means taking meat off the bone with his teeth, and "the bone" refers to a bone from which most of the meat has been taken, as stated in Nihaya (3/220).